scholarly journals Comparative intranight optical variability of X-ray and γ-ray-detected narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies

2020 ◽  
Vol 493 (3) ◽  
pp. 3642-3655 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vineet Ojha ◽  
Hum Chand ◽  
Gopal Krishna ◽  
Sapna Mishra ◽  
Krishan Chand
Keyword(s):  
Duty Cycle ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Minor Role ◽  
Optical Variability ◽  
X Rays ◽  
Narrow Line ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Γ Rays ◽  
Γ Ray ◽  
A Minor

ABSTRACT In a systematic program to characterize the intranight optical variability (INOV) of different classes of narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLSy1s) galaxies, we report here the first comparative INOV study of NLSy1 sets detected in the X-ray and γ-ray bands. Our sample consists of 18 sources detected in X-rays but not in γ-rays (hereafter x_NLSy1s) and seven sources detected in γ-rays (hereafter g_NLSy1s), out of which five are detected also in X-rays. We have monitored these two sets of NLSy1s, respectively, in 24 and 21 sessions of a minimum of 3-h duration each. The INOV duty cycles for these two sets are found to be 12 per cent and 53 per cent, respectively (at a 99 per cent confidence level). In the set of 18 x_NLSy1s, INOV duty cycle is found to be zero for the 13 radio-quiet members (monitored in 14 sessions) and 43 per cent for the five radio-loud members (10 sessions). The latter is very similar to the aforementioned duty cycle of 53 per cent found here for the set of g_NLSy1s (all of which are radio-loud). Thus, it appears that the radio-loudness level is the prime factor behind the INOV detection and the pattern of the high-energy radiation plays only a minor role.

scholarly journals High Energy Radiation from Spider Pulsars

Galaxies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chung Yue Hui ◽  
Kwan Lok Li
Keyword(s):  
High Energy ◽  
X Rays ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Large Area ◽  
High Energy Radiation ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Compact Binaries ◽  
Low Mass ◽  
Γ Rays ◽  
Γ Ray

The population of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) has been expanded considerably in the last decade. Not only is their number increasing, but also various classes of them have been revealed. Among different classes of MSPs, the behaviours of black widows and redbacks are particularly interesting. These systems consist of an MSP and a low-mass companion star in compact binaries with an orbital period of less than a day. In this article, we give an overview of the high energy nature of these two classes of MSPs. Updated catalogues of black widows and redbacks are presented and their X-ray/ γ -ray properties are reviewed. Besides the overview, using the most updated eight-year Fermi Large Area Telescope point source catalog, we have compared the γ -ray properties of these two MSP classes. The results suggest that the X-rays and γ -rays observed from these MSPs originate from different mechanisms. Lastly, we will also mention the future prospects of studying these spider pulsars with the novel methodologies as well as upcoming observing facilities.

scholarly journals Gamma-ray-emitting narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies: the Swift view

2020 ◽  
Vol 496 (2) ◽  
pp. 2213-2229 ◽  
Author(s):  
F D’Ammando
Keyword(s):  
Gamma Ray ◽  
Thermal Emission ◽  
Optical Emission ◽  
X Rays ◽  
Narrow Line ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Relativistic Jet ◽  
Photon Index ◽  
Γ Ray ◽  
Lower Variability

ABSTRACT We report the analysis of all Swift observations available up to 2019 April of γ-ray-emitting narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLSy1). The distribution of X-ray luminosities (and fluxes) indicates that the jet radiation significantly contributes to their X-ray emission, with Doppler boosting making values higher than other radio-loud NLSy1. The 0.3–10 keV photon indices are on average harder with respect to radio-quiet and radio-loud NLSy1, confirming a dominant jet contribution in X-rays. However, the lower variability amplitude with respect to blazars and the softening of the spectrum in some periods suggests that also the corona radiation contributes to the X-ray emission. In optical and ultraviolet (UV) significant flux changes have been observed on daily, weekly, and monthly time-scale, providing a clear indication of the significant contribution of the jet radiation in this part of spectrum. A strong correlation between X-ray, UV, and optical emission and simultaneous flux variations have been observed in 1H 0323+342, SBS 0846+513, PMN J0948+0022 as expected in case the jet radiation is the dominant mechanism. Correlated multiband variability favours the jet-dominated scenario also in FBQS J1644+2619 and PKS 2004−447. The summed X-ray Telescope spectra of 1H 0323+342, SBS 0846+513, PMN J0948+0022, and FBQS J1644+2619 are well fitted by a broken power law with a break around 2 keV. The spectrum above 2 keV is dominated by the non-thermal emission from a beamed relativistic jet, as suggested by the hard photon index. A Seyfert-like feature like the soft X-ray excess has been observed below 2 keV, making these γ-ray-emitting NLSy1 different from typical blazars.

scholarly journals A New Chapter in Hard X-rays of the M87 AGN

Proceedings ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Ka-Wah Wong ◽  
Rodrigo S. Nemmen ◽  
Jimmy A. Irwin ◽  
Dacheng Lin
Keyword(s):  
High Energy ◽  
X Rays ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Accretion Flow ◽  
Relativistic Jet ◽  
Very High Energy ◽  
Γ Ray ◽  
High Energy Emission ◽  
First Time ◽  
Very High

The nearby M87 hosts an exceptional relativistic jet. It has been regularly monitored in radio to TeV bands, but little has been done in hard X-rays ≳10 keV. For the first time, we have successfully detected hard X-rays up to 40 keV from its X-ray core with joint Chandra and NuSTAR observations, providing important insights to the X-ray origins: from the unresolved jet or the accretion flow. We found that the hard X-ray emission is significantly lower than that predicted by synchrotron self-Compton models introduced to explain very-high-energy γ -ray emission above a GeV. We discuss recent models to understand these high energy emission processes.

scholarly journals A NuSTAR view of powerful γ-ray loud blazars

2019 ◽  
Vol 627 ◽  
pp. A72 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Ghisellini ◽  
M. Perri ◽  
L. Costamante ◽  
G. Tagliaferri ◽  
T. Sbarrato ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Distribution ◽  
Spectral Energy Distribution ◽  
Peak Frequency ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Spectral Energy ◽  
X Rays ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Γ Ray ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Jet Power

We observed three blazars at z >  2 with the NuSTAR satellite. These were detected in the γ-rays by Fermi/LAT and in the soft X-rays, but have not yet been observed above 10 keV. The flux and slope of their X-ray continuum, together with Fermi/LAT data allows us to estimate their total electromagnetic output and peak frequency. For some of them we were able to study the source in different states, and investigate the main cause of the different observed spectral energy distribution. We then collected all blazars at redshifts greater than 2 observed by NuSTAR, and confirm that these hard and luminous X-ray blazars are among the most powerful persistent sources in the Universe. We confirm the relation between the jet power and the disk luminosity, extending it at the high-energy end.

Young radio sources at high-energies and the γ-ray CSO PKS 1718–649

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (S342) ◽  
pp. 176-179
Author(s):  
Giulia Migliori
Keyword(s):  
Radio Galaxy ◽  
Radio Galaxies ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Radio Sources ◽  
Host Galaxies ◽  
X Ray ◽  
High Energies ◽  
Γ Rays ◽  
Γ Ray ◽  
High Energy Emission

AbstractObservations at high-energies are important to define the first stages of the evolution of extragalactic radio sources and to characterize the interstellar medium of their host galaxies. In some of the X-ray-observed Compact Symmetric Objects (CSOs, among the youngest and most compact radio galaxies), we measured values of the total hydrogen column densities large enough to slow or prevent the radio source growth. The γ-ray window has the potential to constrain the non-thermal contribution of jets and lobes to the total high-energy emission. However, so far, young radio sources remain elusive in γ-rays, with only a handful of detections (or candidates) reported by Fermi. I present our γ-ray study of the CSO PKS 1718–649, and draw comparison with the restarted, γ-ray detected, radio galaxy 3C 84.

scholarly journals Centaurus A: Hard X-ray and High-Energy Gamma-Ray Light Curve Correlation

Galaxies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isak Davids ◽  
Markus Böttcher ◽  
Michael Backes
Keyword(s):  
Light Curve ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Electromagnetic Spectrum ◽  
X Rays ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Correlation Studies ◽  
High Energy Gamma ◽  
Energy Gamma ◽  
Γ Rays ◽  
Centaurus A

Centaurus A, powered by a 55 million solar mass supermassive black hole, has been intensively monitored in all accessible wavelength ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum. However, its very-high energy gamma ( γ ) ray flux (TeV photons), obtained from H.E.S.S. is relatively faint, hampering detailed light curve analyses in the most energetic energy band. Yet, the extensive long-term light curve data from Fermi-LAT and Swift-BAT (hard X-rays) allows for cross-correlation studies. We find a hint that X-ray emission from Centaurus A precedes the γ rays by 25 ± 125 days. If this lag is real and related to a γ γ absorption effect in the broad-line region (BLR) around the central source, we can constrain the size of the BLR using light-travel time arguments. These are first results of extended light curve correlation studies between high-energy γ rays and X-rays from Centaurus A.

The spectrum of γ rays in the energy range 1011 to 1013 eV at an atmospheric depth of 200 g/cm2, and pion generation in high-energy nucleon interactions

1968 ◽  
Vol 46 (10) ◽  
pp. S700-S705 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. V. Apanasenko ◽  
L. T. Baradzei ◽  
E. A. Kanevskaya ◽  
V. V. Rykov ◽  
Yu. A. Smorodin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Range ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Nucleon Interaction ◽  
Nuclear Emulsions ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Black Spots ◽  
Γ Rays ◽  
Γ Ray ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Electron Photon

The problem of the existence of a change of slope in the γ-ray spectrum in the atmosphere is of considerable interest in connection with conclusions about the change in the character of the nucleon interaction. Up to now this problem has not been solved experimentally. In this report the γ-ray spectrum in the 1011–1013 eV energy range has been obtained using data from X-ray films and nuclear emulsions exposed on board an airplane at a pressure of 200 g/cm2. The total exposure was 425 hours∙m2. The energies of the electron–photon cascades initiated by γ rays were determined in the X-ray films by measuring the photometric densities of the black spots, and in nuclear emulsions by counting the electron tracks near the cascade axis. The integral spectrum has a power-law form with an exponent of 1.7–1.9. A change in slope in the spectrum was not found. Thus, a mechanism generating pions with energies proportional to the initial nucleon energies exists up to nucleon energies of ~1014 eV. The analysis of the accompaniment of γ rays by "families" shows that in one-third of the cases the energy of the most energetic π0 meson is at least five times that of the next π0 meson. In the remaining two-thirds of the cases the π0 mesons have comparable energies.

scholarly journals VHE GAMMA-RAYS FROM GALACTIC X-RAY BINARY SYSTEMS

2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (10) ◽  
pp. 1849-1858 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. PAREDES
Keyword(s):  
Gamma Rays ◽  
Binary Systems ◽  
High Energy ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Very High Energy ◽  
Γ Rays ◽  
Γ Ray ◽  
Tev Gamma Rays ◽  
X Ray Binaries ◽  
Very High

The detection of TeV gamma-rays from LS 5039 and the binary pulsar PSR B1259–63 by HESS, and from LS I +61 303 and the stellar-mass black hole Cygnus X-1 by MAGIC, provides clear evidence of very efficient acceleration of particles to multi-TeV energies in X-ray binaries. These observations demonstrate the richness of nonthermal phenomena in compact galactic objects containing relativistic outflows or winds produced near black holes and neutron stars. I review here some of the main observational results on very high energy (VHE) γ-ray emission from X-ray binaries, as well as some of the proposed scenarios to explain the production of VHE γ-rays. I put special emphasis on the flare TeV emission, suggesting that the flaring activity might be a common phenomena in X-ray binaries.

scholarly journals Broadband X-ray observations of four gamma-ray narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies

2019 ◽  
Vol 632 ◽  
pp. A120 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Berton ◽  
V. Braito ◽  
S. Mathur ◽  
L. Foschini ◽  
E. Piconcelli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Accretion Disk ◽  
Gamma Ray ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Time Variability ◽  
X Rays ◽  
Narrow Line ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Relativistic Jet ◽  
Line Region ◽  
Spectrum Radio

Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) is one of the few classes of active galactic nuclei harboring powerful relativistic jets and detected in γ-rays. NLS1s are well-known X-ray sources. While in non-jetted sources the origin of this X-ray emission may be a hot corona surrounding the accretion disk, in jetted objects, especially beamed ones, the contribution of corona and relativistic jet is difficult to disentangle without a proper sampling of the hard X-ray emission. For this reason, we observed with NuSTAR the first four NLS1s detected at high energy γ-rays. These data, along with XMM-Newton and Swift/XRT observations, confirmed that X-rays originate both in the jet and in the accretion disk corona. Time variability in hard X-rays furthermore suggests that, as observed in flat-spectrum radio quasars, the dissipation region during flares could change its position from source to source, and it can be located both inside and outside the broad-line region. We find that jetted NLS1s, and other blazars as well, seem not to follow the classical fundamental plane of black hole (BH) activity, which therefore should be used as a BH mass estimator in blazars with extreme care only. Our results strengthen the idea according to which γ-NLS1s are smaller and younger version of flat-spectrum radio quasars, in which both a Seyfert and a blazar component co-exist.

scholarly journals Cygnus X-3 and Other Ultra-High-Energy γ-Ray Sources

1987 ◽  
Vol 125 ◽  
pp. 521-533
Author(s):  
John J. Barnard
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Models ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Ultra High Energy ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Air Shower ◽  
Γ Rays ◽  
Γ Ray ◽  
High Energy Particles

Recently, several binary X-ray sources have been found to be sources of ultra high energy γ-ray emission. Air shower observations indicate photon energies >∼ 1015 eV. We review the current status of observations from the source Cygnus X-3, and compare this data with that from the sources Hercules X-1, Vela X-1, and LMC X-4. Current theoretical models for the production of γ-rays and the acceleration of high energy particles are discussed and the consequences for the evolution of such systems are examined.

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